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[davemerrill]

Didn't see TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY yesterday 'cause it hasn't opened wide here yet - it's at the Varsity in Yorkville, which means we pay $12 to get there on TTC, $10 to park, or $20 for a cab. Wah. So we went down the Queensway and saw YOUNG ADULT, the movie that gives us Charlize Theron as a YA writer - sorry, "author", who made it big in the big city and has returned to her small town to generally behave badly. Lots of early 90s alterna-rock on the soundtrack with Teenage Fanclub, the Replacements, and others providing context for her attempt to capture the past and recapture her old boyfriend who is now married with children. Patton Oswalt plays a disabled guy with punk rock stickers all over his forearm assist. It's a pretty dark comedy; I wasn't expecting a crowded theater but crowded it was. Maybe it was the second choice for those who couldn't get into the Mission Impossible movie. Anyway it's an enjoyably uncomfortable film that never takes the easy way out.

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[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

I hear good things about this one, think I'll give it a look when I'm home over Christmas with time to kill. Juno had some issues, but I thought it was a pretty decent picture once the dialogue settled down a bit.